8o  SMITHSONIAN    MISCELLANEOUS    COLLECTIONS  VOL.    96 
Plate  19,  figure  5,  is  a  small,  flat  ivory  object  of  unknown  use,  evi- 
dently an  ornament.  It  comes  from  cut  18,  depth  48  inches.  The 
upper,  slightly  convex  surface  bears  a  simple,  graceful  design,  which, 
though  typically  Old  Bering  Sea  in  spirit,  contains  few  of  the  elements 
usually  associated  with  this  style.  A  pleasing  bilateral  symmetry  is 
produced  through  the  harmonious  arrangement  of  three  closely  spaced 
petaloid  figures  around  a  deep  V-shaped  depression,  and  at  either 
end  a  curving  panel  enclosing  two  ovoid  figures,  each  of  which  has 
at  the  center  a  pair  of  oblique,  deeply  incised  lines  bordered  by  more 
faintly  incised  lines. 
The  small  fragment,  plate  15,  figure  2  (cut  23,  depth  18  in.),  is 
decorated  in  a  somewhat  similar  style:  angular  spaces  outlined  by 
double  lines  and  bordered  by  faintly  incised  broken  lines ;  at  the  end 
is  a  "  ladder  "  design — a  pair  of  horizontal  lines  between  which  are 
numerous  closely  spaced  cross  lines. 
The  ivory  fat  scraper  shown  in  plate  17,  figure  2,  from  cut  10, 
depth  54  inches,  provides  an  interesting  example  of  the  possibility  of 
individual  expression  in  the  use  of  a  conventional  design — in  this  case 
of  the  bilobed  figure,  suggestive  of  the  flattened-out  head  of  a  fish, 
which  is  often  seen  in  Old  Bering  Sea  art.  One  of  these  "  heads  " 
is  visible  on  the  harpoon  socket  piece  shown  in  plate  13,  figure  i 
(the  second  "  head  "  from  the  top,  on  the  right  side)  ;  other  examples 
will  be  described  below.  In  the  present  specimen  the  two  bilobed 
figures  lack  the  customary  "  eyes  "  and  the  slightly  everted  "  snout  " 
in  low  relief,  which  are  usually  responsible  for  the  zoomorphic  ap- 
]>earance.  Instead,  they  contain  small  crescents  and  curving  lines  and 
"  ladder  "  figures,  some  of  which  are  so  arranged  as  to  form  an  inner 
design  similar  to  the  enclosing  one.  These  two  opposed  bilobed  ele- 
ments are  now  brought  together  in  a  most  skillful  manner  by  means 
of  a  centrally  placed  quadrangular  figure  with  incurving  sides.  The 
ends  of  this  central  figure,  formed  of  a  series  of  concentric  curves, 
appear  at  first  glance  as  continuations  of  the  bilobed  figures  them- 
selves, the  efifect  of  which  is  the  blending  of  the  three  independent 
elements  into  a  graceful,  compact,  harmonious  design. 
The  ivory  objects  illustrated  in  plate  15,  figures  3-6  and  10,  are 
decorated  in  what  I  have  called  Old  Bering  Sea  style  2.  Comparable 
examples  from  the  Hillside  site  have  already  been  described  (pi.  13. 
figs.  1-3,  6;  pi.  23,  figs.  I,  2,  4,  9,  ID,  14).  The  stratigraphic  evidence 
obtained  at  that  site,  although  less  conclusive  than  one  might  wish, 
seemed  clearly  to  indicate  that  style  2  was  later  than  style  i,  an  in- 
terpretation which  finds  further  corroboration  in  the  fact  that  style  i 
is  absent  at  Miyowagh.   As  pointed  out  previously,  there  are  marked 
